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What is a call center?

Intercom, Inc.

Call centers have historically been a popular way to offer that support by employing customer service representatives to assist both inbound and outbound queries from existing and potential customers over the phone. Customer relationship management dashboards that provide reporting functions. How do call centers work?

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The support leader’s guide to proactive support: Provide help before it’s needed

Intercom, Inc.

With the right strategy and proactive support tools – think Outbound Messages , Product Tours , Mobile Carousels , and Banners – you can alert customers to known issues, like delivery delays, bugs in your product, and website downtime. 4 powerful proactive support messages to send. Educate customers on new features.

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Built for you: Improved Surveys, enriched push notifications, Australian data hosting, and more

Intercom, Inc.

Increase engagement with enriched mobile push messages. A picture is worth a thousand words and now you can add images to your outbound mobile push messages to increase open rates. Teams can create contextual, personalized, and engaging push messages – without using any code!

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

Create internal dashboards, docs or wiki pages, only to realize that’s where information goes to die, because people can’t find it, don’t understand the tool or forget to go there. Think about it as either inbound or outbound comms. These are problems that we typically accept as inevitable, but shouldn’t. What’s next?

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Boost your support efficiency with Intercom’s new workflows

Intercom, Inc.

It not only scours inbound conversations for duplicates but examines replies to outbound messages as well. In the past, we managed our Support team’s reporting through Tableau and relied on custom SQL queries to populate our dashboards that were tracking individual and team-level metrics.

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Meet the Intercom App Store: Helping customers and partners grow

Intercom, Inc.

Until now, our app store has lived behind closed doors within the Intercom product dashboard. As well as a simple dashboard for managing your apps, you can now get a free developer workspace to build and test your apps in a safe environment. From today, we’re opening the app store up to the public.

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Push notifications: The key channel marketers are forgetting (and need)

Intercom, Inc.

Not that long ago, the notion that you could send a message straight into the pockets of millions of people, capturing their attention at the touch of a button, would have sounded like the stuff of a marketer’s dreams – but that’s exactly what push notifications offer. Types of messages that provide value. Behavior-based messages.